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Patents: help or hindrance?
As I sat in the witness stand, I started to realize just how difficult my task had become. I had been hired by the defendant in a patent-infringement lawsuit to be the leading expert witness. It was a case involving a fairly basic online mortgage technology application. I assumed it was an easy case, as what was patented was so obvious to anyone "skilled in the art." In other words, if you work in the mortgage technology field, you would have easily created a technology solution that this patent covered.
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